From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
William D Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com>,
Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:50:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4686356F.5050100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706292211.43170.dhazelton@enter.net>
On 06/30/2007 04:11 AM, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> On Friday 29 June 2007 17:27:34 Rene Herman wrote:
>> Arguably (no doubt, sigh...) someone could distribute the kernel in
>> binary form but refuse to provide source for the bits marked as being
>> in the public domain alongside it -- yes, can of worms when compared to
>> GPL demands, but I believe I can see why one shouldn't even go near
>> there.
>
> Actually, they couldn't. Second PD code became included in the kernel it
> would be covered by the GPL. If it can be shown that the kernel binary
> was the product of merging PD code in, then there is no way top refuse
> access to the PD code.
If indeed. If the PD code compiles to a standalone module then this becomes
every bit as arguable as binary modules. That's the "(no doubt, sigh)" bit.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 10:54 UTC|newest]
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2007-06-29 21:05 ` Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 Bodo Eggert
2007-06-29 21:27 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-30 2:11 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-30 10:50 ` Rene Herman [this message]
[not found] <fa.ZV8hYZHQHqzfx1dgOFeEVFRogSg@ifi.uio.no>
2007-06-27 14:15 ` Bill Waddington
2007-06-28 11:15 ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-28 15:28 ` William D Waddington
2007-06-28 16:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-28 16:39 ` William D Waddington
2007-06-29 0:00 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-28 21:39 ` Al Viro
2007-06-28 22:00 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-28 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-28 22:45 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-27 13:53 Al Boldi
2007-06-27 15:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-27 16:08 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-27 16:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-27 16:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-27 22:32 ` Al Boldi
2007-06-27 17:11 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 22:32 ` Al Boldi
2007-06-27 23:12 ` Al Viro
2007-06-28 15:37 ` Al Boldi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-21 21:49 Zoltán HUBERT
2007-06-21 21:54 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-21 22:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-21 22:21 ` Zoltán HUBERT
2007-06-22 20:54 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-21 22:29 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-21 22:34 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-21 23:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-21 23:08 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-21 23:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2007-06-21 23:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 21:15 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-29 13:41 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-29 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-22 15:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-22 17:11 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-22 22:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-24 20:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-25 16:38 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-25 23:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-06-25 23:23 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-21 22:57 ` Zoltán HUBERT
2007-06-21 23:07 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-21 23:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-22 8:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-26 11:59 ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-26 14:37 ` Zoltán HUBERT
2007-06-26 15:04 ` Renato S. Yamane
2007-06-26 19:03 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-06-27 9:18 ` Zoltán HUBERT
2007-06-27 9:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-06-27 9:55 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 14:44 ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-27 16:13 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-29 16:37 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-06-21 23:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-21 23:32 ` david
2007-06-22 8:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-21 22:52 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-21 22:59 ` Zoltán HUBERT
2007-06-21 22:58 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-22 3:51 ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-22 9:19 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-06-22 9:45 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-23 7:25 ` Chris Snook
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